In society The uniform December 5, 2008 Alexey Makarkin Alexy II went down in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) as a patriarch, who solved the historical task of reuniting the Russian Orthodox Church with the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROPS). Thus, the dramatic church split was overcome, which continued most of the twentieth century.

The Tver City Duma adopted in the second reading a new City Charter, according to which Tver residents will no longer be able to elect a mayor. Now the mayor will automatically become the chairman of the Duma, who will be elected by deputies. At the same time, the position of city manager is being introduced - the so-called city manager, who will be appointed based on the results of a competition.

“Everyone will protect a nice person, and who will protect the unsympathetic? Yuri Orlov, human rights activist When the Movement for Human Rights received a letter from Alexey Frenkel from the pre-trial detention center with complaints about violations of his rights, I instinctively pushed him away from me.

If there were doubts about who we have the main boss, now they were dispelled. Our boss is Putin. If there were fluctuations about what kind of social system we have, then now it's time to calm down. This system is a dictatorship. Perhaps not very tough. Or even a little sluggish. But still not a republic. If you can find the general that unites us all into a single whole, is the irrepressible passion for begging.

“His Holiness the Patriarch died at his residence in Peredelkino an hour and a half ago,” priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, told Interfax-Religion. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II headed the Russian Orthodox Church for 18 years.

The authorities are terrified of a jury trial. And fear, as we know, clouds the mind. What, if not the animal fear of an uncontrolled trial by “people on the street,” can explain the initiative of the distinguished United Russia deputies Vladimir Vasilyev and Mikhail Grishankov, who propose to significantly limit the competence of the jury.

Alexy II entered the history of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) as the patriarch who solved the historical task of reuniting the ROC with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR). Thus, the dramatic church schism that lasted for most of the twentieth century was overcome. The wisdom and diplomacy of the patriarch, who began his life in exile (he was the son of a cleric who served in independent Estonia), played a large role in this unification.

Putin's press conference was openly, demonstratively, defiantly PRESIDENTIAL. And the very format of communication with his subjects, and the confident manner of the First Man, who does not think of looking back at anyone, and the nature of the questions - questions specifically to the Master - left no doubt. "Profession? “Master of the Russian Land.” This is what Nicholas II wrote in the questionnaire during the 1897 census.

The next meeting of the nationalist with a subordinate people can be analyzed from different points of view. Trying to understand, for example, how soon the aforementioned nationalizer intends to return to the Kremlin. Putin confidently reasoned on the topics of foreign policy and the armed forces, not even arguing that this is the scope of competence not to the prime minister, but the president.

Under the leadership of Alexy II, the church successfully experienced a transition period, during which it had to relearn dialogue with society. During the years of Soviet power, the church and its parishioners formed a closed subculture that reacted poorly to events in socio-political life. After the collapse of the USSR, everything changed. The Church began to develop its own socio-political position.